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"Is that one of the things you always say to women?"

"I have said it before, but I don't think I ever ca

it," he answered with a shts in her eyes;

only a dreaht I adore you Sleep well," he said, and he kissed her hand

and went away

She stayed alone in a kind of reverie--a sort of stupor Step by step

she lived over every instant of the time she had been with Robert after

he had entered Mademoiselle Reisz's door She recalled his words,

his looks Ho and ry heart! A

vision--a transcendently seductive vision of a Mexican girl arose before

her She writhed with a jealous pang She wondered when he would come

back He had not said he would come back She had been with him, had

heard his voice and touched his hand But some way he had seemed nearer

to her off there in Mexico